I wanted to kickstart the week by giving a little heads up on our ArcticIndex and what we’ve been up to lately. Sometime back we added the jobs part to the website and even though it hasn’t been under tremendous use – it has received a lot of attention.
Today – we’re announcing an addition to the service, events. We decided to let go of our Yahoo Upcoming account and build it ourselves to ArcticIndex. Actually, the wonderful guys at Kisko Labs did it – do contact them if you’re in need of development resources, they do a fantastic job. Anyways, one of the reasons was also that we really want to give all the necessary tools for the community to do this sort of activities without us being a gatekeeper in the middle.
Adding an event and sharing information regarding it is easy – just sign in using your ArcticIndex credentials and click the add event link on the frontpage. Fill out the simple form with all the details and you’re done! These events will then get pulled into our blog’s sidebar, so you will get visibility here as well.
Furthermore, we want to continue on this track in the future as well. We’ve opened an Arctic development blog where we want to share our development roadmap with our readers. We also want to get some feedback on the releases, such as this as to improve them in the future to the direction you’d want to see them being developed in. So don’t hesitate to drop by and comment on our releases at the Arctic development blog.
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You definitelly should have at least a link to job postings page in http://www.arcticstartup.com main page. Or if you want to go wild, list the most recent ones in the right hand side in the same page.
Hey Lasse, thanks for the comments. We’re going to be improving our layout in the near future (hopefully this month) and with that the jobs will be listed here as well.
I’m curious, why did you decide to build events yourself instead of using Upcoming (or Meetup, Facebook, etc for that matter)?
The problem with Upcoming was that we would have to approve all the events that would get promoted (ie. added to our group) – we didn’t want that. We want to give our community better tools for this. Secondly, many services limit the way you are able to pull data out of their system.
Furthermore, it’s relatively easy to build such a system and integrate it in a manner we want to.
Oh and finally, I don’t think it’s a secret but we have relatively ambitious plans for ArcticIndex and we really need to have these things seamlessly working together to create the best possible experience for the user (and with that the community).
Great news! The UI of the new events page is much cleaner than Upcoming. Good job!!
Thanks Igor!
Lasse, jobs are now on the sidebar aswell.
Osma, it’s definetely not wise to always build everything by yourself, but there is a tradeoff with flexibility when you rely on 3rd party services. Anyway we don’t try to be the best event platform, but a channel for you guys to promote related events.
Arctic Startup has certainly become an important hub for nordic startup activity, and this site serves well to gravitate like-minded entrepreneurs and professionals together. It’s great to be able to follow jobs and events from the landing page!